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LOT 1443
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 5TH-3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/4 - 4 1/4 in. (387 grams total, 8.4-10.7 cm).
Of triangular form each with a broad cutting edge and narrow butt. [3, Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.119, for type.
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Stone Age Pointed Knapped Stone Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000-200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Large and triangular form, heavily patinated. 767 grams, 14.4 cm
Found North Africa. From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 5th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Of triangular form each with a broad cutting edge and narrow butt. 387 grams total, 8.4-10.7 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Stone Age 'Troussencourt' Knapped Adze
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Triangular in section with parallel sides, broad butt and edge; marked 'Troussencourt'. 248 grams, 12.5 cm
Found Troussencourt, France. From an old French collection. Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
